Mar 22 2009
7th Heaven
My beloved wife has spent the day watching DVDs of the American Christian TV show 7th Heaven.
I hate this show with a passion bordering on the extreme. Ridiculous story lines, bad acting, bad writing are one thing. The thinly veiled theme of we’ll teach you how to live good christian lives is even fine, if they didn’t handle the complex issues so simplisticly.
In the real world people take drugs, have sexual encounters they regret, overeat, can’t communicate and are sometimes foolish all for a variety of complex reasons. The life lessons that come from these experience are sometimes understood and sometimes completely missed. Also in the real world, people do the right thing, are honourable and kind and get shitted on from a great height. This is life.
The simplistic crap that is peddled by certain churches (7th Heaven being one vehicle of that peddling) does nothing to help people. It just makes them feel inadequate because they can’t live up to the ideal.
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